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The NTU School of Law offers students a nationally recognised
degree leading to professional admission as a practicing lawyer
in Australia. Its unique geographic location allows undergraduate,
postgraduate and research students the opportunity to develop
expertise in the fields of Asian legal systems and indigenous
peoples and the law. The School has developed a reputation
locally and Australia-wide for its excellent facilities and
opportunities available to graduates.
Excellence and dedication to study are rewarded at the annual
prize night held at the Supreme Court of the Northern Territory.
Among the awards are the prestigious Supreme Court Medal and
the Attorney General's Medals.
In 1995, the Centre for Southeast Asian Law was established
within the School of Law, supported by the Legal Practitioners
Fidelity Fund Committee of the NT and underwritten by the
Northern Territory Government. The Centre conducts a summer
school program each year in July which students may elect
to attend.
Staff have maintained close contact with members of the practising
legal profession. A significant contribution has been made
by the profession and judiciary to the development of the
law courses, and practitioners and judges continue to be involved
in giving lectures and taking tutorials in a number of subjects,
as well as being involved in the moot court program. The strong
support and contribution of the local legal profession (see
Adjunct and external
lecturers) allows the NTU Law School to deliver a range
of subject offerings that is every bit as wide and professionally
challenging as much larger law schools in Sydney or Melbourne,
despite a relatively small number of full-time academic staff.
NTU Law School has on numerous occasions emerged in national
surveys as amongst the top handful of Australian law schools
in terms of teaching quality and student satisfaction.
The Law School gratefully acknowledges the critical role of
the local legal profession in achieving and maintaining high
academic and professional standards in delivery of our undergraduate
law programs.
Studying law does not mean you are restricted to a career
as a solicitor, barrister, prosecutor or judge, if that is
not your ambition. A Law degree opens your career options
to include politics, human rights, legal studies teacher,
industrial relations, customs, immigration or any public or
private sector employment where an in-depth understanding
of the law would be an advantage.
Throughout Australia the content of both academic and practical
courses in law is influenced by the lists of subject areas
and skills agreed by professional admitting authorities (i.e.
the Barristers and Solicitors Admission Boards in each State
and Territory). These lists (commonly referred to as the Priestley
11 and the Priestley 12) set out the areas of study which
are essential if a graduate is to be admitted as a legal practitioner.
Australia now has a system of (almost complete) national mutual
recognition of interstate legal qualifications and admissions.
The Northern Territory Legal Practitioners Admission Board
accepts that the NTU law degree fully satisfies the national
'Priestley 12' requirements. Accordingly, completion
of a law degree at NTU, followed by successful completion
of either Articles of Clerkship or a Practical Legal Training
Course at one of the several accredited legal workshops in
other States and the ACT, now entitles NTU law graduates to
admission as a legal practitioner (barrister or solicitor
or both in jurisdictions with a 'fused' legal profession)
in most Australian States.
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